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Re:Ask HN: What inspires you to persevere through adversity? by crazypyro on Sunday January 22, 2017 @03:27PM (#13457217)
This is nothing special about America. Every culture has its own brand of cure-all objects and systems. In fact, China has significantly more home remedies and cure-all objects (that generally have zero scientific evidence).

Everyone in this thread trying to say general ignorance is something Americans have a monopoly on is silly. It's a human condition, nothing to do with country.

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Re:Ask HN: What inspires you to persevere through adversity? by Normal_gaussian on Sunday January 22, 2017 @05:53PM (#13458140)
It's definitely part of the human condition, but its also much more prevalent in the USA and as you note China.

Many wealthy European countries have a much more suspicious attitude to health vendors. Then again we often ban their advertisements.

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